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• ChatGPT Imagines Three Different Backgrounds for Three Small Sculptures

  

  Here's a photo of three sculptures against a dark background. The two wood carvings were made by my grandfather, Axel Benzon. If you look at the base of Horus... Read more

  The 01 May 2025 by   Bbenzon
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• ChatGPT Illustrates the First 36 Lines of "Kubla Khan"

  

  Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" is noted for its visual richness, supposedly inspired by opium. But who knows? I decided to see what ChatGPT could do when asked to... Read more

  The 02 May 2025 by   Bbenzon
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• Indiana Jones Goes to an Alien World and ChatGPT Gives Us Pictures

  

  I’ve become interested in using photographs as prompts for image-making with ChatGPT. I’ve now done quite a bit of this, but have only posted two bitx so far,... Read more

  The 03 May 2025 by   Bbenzon
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• Traffic’s Up: New Savanna Stats, May 1, 2025

  

  Traffic is definitely up at New Savanna. Notice that spike at the right. It’s above 250K. Compare that with what we had a month before, on March 31, 2025: The... Read more

  The 05 May 2025 by   Bbenzon
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• Deep Seeking Xanadu, with Illumination by ChatGPT

  

  Back in February I posted three sonnets written by FTH (FredTheHeretic): Deep Seeking Xanadu: A Sonnet Cycle on East, West, and Kisangani. Read more

  The 05 May 2025 by   Bbenzon
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• Little House Among the Bean Plants [ChatGPT]

  

  We start with this photo I took of some bean plants in a community garden in Jersey City. We ask ChatGPT to some cabins under the plants. Turn on the lights. Di... Read more

  The 06 May 2025 by   Bbenzon
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• The Verdant Sovereign Awakes: 51 Pacific Rises from the Ashes

  

  That's 51 Pacific Avenue, Jersey City, where the Green Villain – ronin curator, roving party animal, and agent provocateur, held court. Read more

  The 07 May 2025 by   Bbenzon
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• On the Need for a Society That Honors Homo Ludens

  

  From a recent conversation I had with either ChatGPT or Claude 3.7, I forget which. As always, my remarks in bold face while the chatbot's are in plain face. Read more

  The 10 May 2025 by   Bbenzon
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• Toward a Tantric Reading of Shakespeare’s “Th' Expense of Spirit in a Waste of...

  

  I was playing around with ChatGPT, as I often do. In particular, I was playing with its ability to create mandalas, highly stylized devotional images in the... Read more

  The 11 May 2025 by   Bbenzon
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• Music and Tears: Phenomenology, Science, Philosophy

  

  New working paper. Title above, links, abstract, contents, and introduction below. I end with a clip from the Johnny Carson show which is the basis for one of... Read more

  The 11 May 2025 by   Bbenzon
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